To-morrow the world will have gone amiss— Now we are face by face, love, I thrill to your kiss— So let us remember naught but this: That To-night is ours!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893 by Various

And if he did not leave the house to escape from the dear and torturing memory it was because he had the certainty that he should find her everywhere in the garden, too: dreaming on the terrace; walking with slow steps through the alleys in the pine grove; sitting under the shade of the plane trees; lulled by the eternal song of the fountain; lying in the threshing yard at twilight, her gaze fixed on space, waiting for the stars to come out.
— from Doctor Pascal by Émile Zola

At last one evening came a pencil note from Lucy, in these terms: 'You may come and see me, father says.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

A great number of pigeons had found lodgment in the Tombs yard, nesting in cotes which had been put up for them along the inner jail walls and in the eaves of the buildings themselves.
— from In Jail with Charles Dickens by Alfred Trumble

Prepared foods release you from less important tasks, that you may have time to learn food values.
— from The Business of Being a Housewife A Manual to Promote Household Efficiency and Economy by Jean Prescott Adams